Peace returns to Enugu community 20 years after

Peace has returned to Ogugu community in Awgu Local Government Area, Enugu State, after 20 years of crisis and legal tussle.

Announcing the return of peace at a press conference, yesterday, the newly elected President-General, Ogugu Progressive Union General Assembly (OPUGA), Chief Paulinus Obiora Ofido, stated that the community is now poised to recover lost grounds through partnerships with government and communal efforts.

Ofido explained that through the intervention of well meaning indigenes of the community and the state government through the Ministry of Rural Development headed by Ozo Gab Onuzurike, all the court cases had been resolved with the election that produced the new executive headed by him.

He said with the resolution of the squabbles that created two factions before now, the community would now work towards the election of a new traditional ruler.